Update 2: Another one at the moment, so site is slow. :)
Update: Another 30000 bots joined the party, so cpu usage is high at the moment. Site is slower than normal.
Appearently about 17500 bots are attempting to slow down our instance and eating bandwidth by grabbing the same files over and over.
They are banned for now but its an ongoing battle against these guys. Just wanted to let you know in case you notice worse performance. :)
Trumps 1st term when people started getting banned in large numbers, and it snowballed from there.
I survived the first term, but in February 2025, right after the Inauguration, The Goblin had a meeting with Spez, and Reddit cowardly permabanned thousands, perhaps millions, of veteran accounts, and totally destroyed the platform.
With all the experienced posters gone, all that’s left are the lurkers and bots and MAGA propagandists.
Musk did pressure spez, whom spez is in love with. to make 2 waves of purges, and it just snowballed from there. this allowed the likes palintir bots to appear as well. and i think reddit is mostly going after the small fry: OF accounts, and link droppers to thier site. allegedly im hearing they have upped thier detection methods against the evaders that are using methods to hide thier methods. The propaganda bots dont care about evading, they can just create hundreds and thousands more, so they are in plain sight, its about “flooding the zone”